SanDisk Extreme 120GB SSD Review – Performance at a bargain price

These tests are very simple tests, but very important to
some users of SSD drives.

We simply started an application or game, and measured the
time taken for the application or game to fully load and start.

Application loading times

Adobe Fireworks CS3

These types of tests are becoming pretty pointless, as there
is so little difference in tangible performance between the modern SSDs.

Corel PaintShop Pro 12

Again, I doubt anyone could tell difference from the fastest
to the slowest modern SATA 6Gbps SSD, as they are all very close, but for
posterity the SanDisk Extreme is once again in the middle of the pack.

Games loading times

FAR CRY 2

The OCZ Vertex 4 is the fastest, with the SanDisk finishing
in fourth place in this test, and is as fast as the larger capacity SandForce
SF-2281 based SSDs.

F.E.A.R. 2

Once again the results are so very close, and once again the
SanDisk Extreme is showing a very good turn of speed.

Now let’s round off this article with the MyCE Reality
Suite tests on the next page.....